I want to still be me when I wake up one fine morning and have breakfast at Tiffany´s.
Truman CapoteRead
Before birth; yes, what time was it then? A time like now, and when they were dead, it would be still like now: these trees, that sky, this earth, those acorn seeds, sun and wind, all the same, while they, with dust-turned hearts, change only.
Interpretation
This quote reflects on the constant nature of the world versus the transient nature of human life.
Truman Capote's quote emphasizes the idea that while the natural world remains unchanged, human beings experience life through cycles of birth, existence, and death. It suggests that despite the inevitability of change in our lives, the fundamental elements of nature—trees, sky, earth—persist unchanged through time, pointing to a philosophical contemplation of existence and the human condition.
In practice
This quote could be used in a philosophical discussion about the nature of life.
I want to still be me when I wake up one fine morning and have breakfast at Tiffany´s.
All writing, all art, is an act of faith. If one tries to contribute to human understanding, how can that be called decadent? It's like saying a declaration of love is an act of decadence. Any work of art, provide it springs from a sincere motivation to further understanding between people, is an act of faith and therefore is an act of love.
No one will ever know what 'In Cold Blood' took out of me. It scraped me right down to the marrow of my bones. It nearly killed me. I think, in a way, it did kill me.
Hot weather opens the skull of a city, exposing its white brain, and its heart of nerves, which sizzle like the wires inside a lightbulb. And there exudes a sour extra-human smell that makes the very stone seem flesh-alive, webbed and pulsing.
I don't want to own anything until I find a place where me and things go together.
The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
And much as Wine has played the Infidel, And robbed me of my Robe of Honor Well, I often wonder what the Vintners buy One half so precious as the stuff they sell.
The instrument through which you see God is your whole self. And if a man's self is not kept clean and bright, his glimpse of God will be blurred
The resentment of discipline of any kind will warp the whole life away from God's purpose.
A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory.
I say people who feel they must have a faith or religion in order to face life are showing a kind of cowardice, which in any other sphere would be considered contemptible. But when it is in the religious sphere it is thought admirable, and I cannot admire cowardice whatever sphere it is in.
The land-relation is still strictly economic, entailing privileges but not obligations
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